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I received a hatchling children's python at the end of june. I've been feeding it once a week with a f/t pinky. The first feeding it took aggressively with constriction, second feeding less agressive but still took the mouse with little encouragement. It now has been 14 days since it has eaten. I have tried braining (sticking a pin into the mouses head then squeezing brain goo out, not sure if that is the right way?), jiggling the mouse, and leaving the python and the mouse in a brown paper bag. Please let me know if this kind of fasting is normal or if I am not using the right feeding tricks...Thanks Justin

Hi,

I would suggest you try a bigger meal. One that can already run. In my experience it's always the same in feeding young pythons: the prey has to move quickly to stimulate the snake.

Good luck,

Wulf
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>>I received a hatchling children's python at the end of june. I've been feeding it once a week with a f/t pinky. The first feeding it took aggressively with constriction, second feeding less agressive but still took the mouse with little encouragement. It now has been 14 days since it has eaten. I have tried braining (sticking a pin into the mouses head then squeezing brain goo out, not sure if that is the right way?), jiggling the mouse, and leaving the python and the mouse in a brown paper bag. Please let me know if this kind of fasting is normal or if I am not using the right feeding tricks...Thanks Justin

My thought was is it going into shed? some of mine will eat through a shed and some seem to be in shed forever and take a longer break from eating during it.
You could try a live pink and work back to f/t with that but I wouldn't panic yet.
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